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Self-reflection during study as Law Student

haii.. Welcome to my blog !!!!!

as you can see in my profile, it's written that i am a law student. Well i study in Faculty of Law Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya. Being a student in University is not as easy as people said. well i would like to share my experiences during my study in this Faculty.

actually, this writing is my assignment for ethical profession course. However i feel like i want to share with all you guys since while working on this assignment i was amazed what I've passed during this couple years. And hopefully it can help you, another student, or whoever you are. I think that it is good for doing self-reflection of your live. It well help you to thank more, think more, gain more, and respect yourself more.

well that's all for the boring introduction

so this is my self-reflection, love you .... best of luck !!!

a)    With whom you associate influence who you are
I never understand why I take a law school. Since the first time I attended this school until in my fifth semester I don’t know what a legal profession I will do. However, Faculty of Law Universitas Airlangga teaches me so many things. Since, I didn’t know what to do as a Law student besides studying, I joint some Semi autonomy Organizations (BSO) provided in this Faculty. One of them is Masyarakat Yuris Muda Airlangga (MYMA), this BSO held an audition at that time, I joint the audition to become Universitas Airlangga delegation for National Debate Competition. And fortunately I passed and become the team members. From this BSO and competition I learnt. A week after I officially become a Law student I was sent to Jakarta to join this competition, I was a researcher with two of my friends.
Since I was just entering the Law School, I know nothing about Law and how to argue. Things didn’t become easy, therefore I need to exert more than my friends did. I learnt harder, I went home later. My seniors understand my obstacles and they were kindly teach and guided me. My job was to help them searching the data to established their argument for the competition, however the help me how to understand the law and how establish an argument.
A month from the first competition I was selected to become one of the speaker to represent Universitas Airlangga in another National Debate Competition. My seniors in this team not only taught me how to build a firm legal argumentation, but they also taught me how to become professional, how to have a good attitude, and how to dress up as a lawyer. They always emphasized that when I become the delegation, I am not only represent my name, but I also represent Universitas Airlangga. Therefore, they concerned about my attitude, and how did I look. Such experiences not only attached in me in competition but also in my daily life. It taught me a lesson that character grants respect.
It can be said that my seniors, at that time, people I associate with build a firm influence in me. I can compare with some of my friends which unfortunately they meet the other senior with another character, such character mostly build firmly also in them.

b)      The better I associate with, the better I become
I received an invitation to joint English Class interview. This class is a new class opened for the first time at the same year I entered this Faculty. Which mean that this class is a trial and error class. However, I decided to join this class with all the consequences. For the first time in this class I couldn’t catch what the lecture explained. The English I learnt didn’t help much. The lectures mentioned so many legal terminologies which are totally new for me. And such obstacles remain for a few months.
Moreover, I joint some competitions during the semester, therefore I rarely enter the class. I studied with my seniors about some subjects matters. However I found that some of the explanations are different. Therefore, I have to struggle more to pass each class or at least to understand what my lectures said.
Fortunately, my classmates help me. Some of the other students said that become the part of English class student is very fortunate. We get the better mark than other class. We easily got an A for some subjects. However, they were totally wrong. To be the part of English Class student is not that easy. It will get harder when you have been the part of them. An English class student should learnt more. If other students have to learn once, at least we have to learn twice. If other students have to think about the answer once, at least we have to think twice before we answer. Things are not as easy as they think. As an English Class student I have to learn harder to compete with my classmates. The competition in our class is not an ease. If we left a little then we will completely lost
Though that hard situation. I enjoy being the part of this class. This class makes me realize that you have to make effort to get better. I may not stick in that point, I have to move as fast as my classmates do. The best thing about this class is even though we have to struggle more than other class, even though we have no idea where will this class being concerned, and how to past the last assignment, we help each other. We share the materials every day, when one of the students found a new material he or she will send to the whole class. When we got an exam, we discuss whole night in social media, we explain each other, and in the day of exam we do it by our self. I heard about how easily other class can cheat in exam. But it will not found in this class, not because it can’t be done, but because no one wants to do that. Therefore, I believe that this class also influences me to be better.

c)    Study about Law, and become a debater kill my conscience?
Universitas Airlangga has a motto which is excellent with morality. While the motto of MYMA is speak and write for truth and justice. My Professor also taught me that the aim of law is to achieve peace and welfare. However I don’t really get what it means. How is excellent with morality, how to speak and write for truth and justice while we have to be professional as a lawyer, how law can achieve peace and welfare if the law making process itself is profit orientation ?
When I join a debate or International Moot court competition I have to make pro and cons argument. I have to make both arguments the same strong and firm. Therefore I have to think in both sides. The more I learnt the more I understand that the law provides justification for both sides. Moreover, I often find that one article of law can be used for the both sides depends on how we argue and make justification. When I work on  a debate case, and I make one side is stronger that the other side I bear in my mind that I haven’t search enough, I haven’t read enough, and I haven’t learn enough. Sometimes I found that when mostly people judge wrong for a case, I would say right.
It happens when I have a discussion with my friends which is not study about Law. Once we ever have discussion about the criminalization of KPK by POLRI. All of my friends at that time were judging that POLRI is wrong and KPK is right. But I had a different opinion. I argue that there is no wrong in POLRI towards KPK, they just do what they have to do, and it is legal by the Law. KPK is not always right, when they violate the Law and procedure, they have to be responsible for it. It is the responsibility of KPK to conduct carefully with such authority. Then my friend said how do I know that ? And my answer is it was one of a debate case I ever had, I do research and study the Law. And spontaneously my friend said that the law and debate kill my conscience.
When I realized about what my friends said, I found that as study about law and doing debate changing the way I think. I understand that I will never think the same as before, which thinking the way the law student do is become the part of I am now. However I don’t know if how the way I think is right or wrong. Can it help me to do excellent job with good moral, or event can I speak and write truthfully and just?

d)    Study about Law in Class is definitely not enough
As a student my first responsibility is to study. However, I know study is not enough to get the knowledge needed to be a lawyer. The time proportion in class is less than out of the class. Therefore most of students join organization. They choose organization which provides the place to develop their passion.
Besides organization I joint some competition as hobby. However, I got more than just the place to develop my hobby. As a law student the ability to speak, the ability to make draft, legal review, and legal writing I needed. I ever joint some competition which was most of the cases I could not solve because I haven’t taken the subject. When I was only in two or third semester I don’t understand about illegal per se, whistle blower, war crimes and humanitarian law, or other terminologies. However, I had to face cases which related with such terminologies.
Moreover, when I joint competition in other University I have to learn the doctrines growing in such University. For instance, I ever joint the competition in Universitas Diponegoro which has progressive doctrine. It is different with Universitas Airlangga which has normative doctrine. I remember how much I learnt about progressive doctrine and still could not understand, and how hard my coach teaches me about that doctrine to change my mindset. When I come to class and I tried to discuss with my friends about such doctrine, most of my friend did not aware about that and did not acknowledge who was the doctrine creator.
Furthermore, when I was in first semester I was amazed how my opposition argues. How they get into that argument, what was they thinking, how could they know that. It’s not rare that I got knowledge from my opponent during the competition. I ever visited Gorontalo for National Seminar. I met a good and smart friend there. He told me that he was really envy to us who live and study in big city of java. How easily we can study with so many resources around us and so many professors who teach us. He told me that studying in Gorontalo is really hard. They have to walk a little bit far to get better internet access, they have to wait for public lecture to ask a professor, they have to queuing to borrow a good book from our Professor. Then I understand that it is really not enough to study in class. As a law student the ability to speak, to write, to think logically, to draft will not develop well when we only rely on the lecture in class which has a limit time. We have to develop our ability by our self, we can read books, we can ask to our senior, we can ask to our lecture outside the class, even we can join competition to build up our knowledge. Moreover, character will not be thought in class if we do not try to look it by our self.